quick fixes, bodges and creations
- Thread starter jimmer
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- Location
- East Sussex
Rod Dumbreck
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I can't get ticktock to work, mind you Im using the old steam driven browser, so maybe thats why
- Location
- East Sussex
Someone in what looks to be like South America milking a small cow in a tin shed. Has the vacuum line of the milking bucket plugged into the air intake of a running tractor. Pans over to the electric vacuum pump that isn’t working.
Rod Dumbreck
Member
There was a firm in the early 70s that made a vacuum cleaner for grain stores that utilised the air filter intake, but the chap I worked for concluded it was a bit risky to mess up an engine, so we carried on with the traditional broom.
edit : and thanks for the subtitles
- Location
- Showery S.E. IRL
The bucket plant that was here till the70's was worked the same way when the electricity would fail.
100mm box section post in concrete did what they always do after 20 years in the ground and rusted through. Didn't fancy digging the concrete out because it's in the handling pens and I use them all the time and couldn't really do without them while I got it sorted so needed a quick, but solid, fix. (There is 6 altogether and most will probably be not much better I'd guess so had planned on doing them all at the same time and new concrete but this one broke before I had the chance)
Never mind this worked quite well for an hours work. Yes I used paint but it's a quick fix thread as well not just bodges.
Knocked what was sticking out of the ground down with a hammer so I had a 100mm hole in the ground to use as a socket. Measured how deep it was best I could and cut the broken off post down to solid non rusty metal. Put 90mm box section inside the cut down post and made it as best as I could to the length I thought it should be. Welded it all up and hoped for the best. Painted it inside and out so hopefully it lasts a while.
Much to my surprise it fit perfectly and the panel off one side hands level and the gate hanging off the other side is perfectly level as well and the bolt to close it even goes into the same hole it did before.
Well impressed with myself for a bodger who makes stuff up as I go along
Never mind this worked quite well for an hours work. Yes I used paint but it's a quick fix thread as well not just bodges.
Knocked what was sticking out of the ground down with a hammer so I had a 100mm hole in the ground to use as a socket. Measured how deep it was best I could and cut the broken off post down to solid non rusty metal. Put 90mm box section inside the cut down post and made it as best as I could to the length I thought it should be. Welded it all up and hoped for the best. Painted it inside and out so hopefully it lasts a while.
Much to my surprise it fit perfectly and the panel off one side hands level and the gate hanging off the other side is perfectly level as well and the bolt to close it even goes into the same hole it did before.
Well impressed with myself for a bodger who makes stuff up as I go along
- Location
- Near Colchester
Good fix but the thought police will be after you - the thread 'not quite farm engineering or a quick bodge' would have been a safer place to post.100mm box section post in concrete did what they always do after 20 years in the ground and rusted through. Didn't fancy digging the concrete out because it's in the handling pens and I use them all the time and couldn't really do without them while I got it sorted so needed a quick, but solid, fix. (There is 6 altogether and most will probably be not much better I'd guess so had planned on doing them all at the same time and new concrete but this one broke before I had the chance)
Never mind this worked quite well for an hours work. Yes I used paint but it's a quick fix thread as well not just bodges.
Knocked what was sticking out of the ground down with a hammer so I had a 100mm hole in the ground to use as a socket. Measured how deep it was best I could and cut the broken off post down to solid non rusty metal. Put 90mm box section inside the cut down post and made it as best as I could to the length I thought it should be. Welded it all up and hoped for the best. Painted it inside and out so hopefully it lasts a while.
Much to my surprise it fit perfectly and the panel off one side hands level and the gate hanging off the other side is perfectly level as well and the bolt to close it even goes into the same hole it did before.
Well impressed with myself for a bodger who makes stuff up as I go along
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Gerbert
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- Location
- Dutch biblebelt
Trust me it was just luck that it happened like that. I can almost guarantee that the next 5 won't be straight or level no matter how hard I try
do you get sixpence or something every time someone posts in there?
- Location
- Near Colchester
I set the thread up to prevent the cruelty threatened to people who used paint, new nails, virgin welding rods and all manner of other things regarded as not allowed by the Puritans.do you get sixpence or something every time someone posts in there?
I'm hoping all the other proper bodges I've put on here mean I can get away with one post with paint on it
Hadn't thought of that. Usually tip waste oil into sockets but that is a much better idea. I was given a couple of ancient 5 gallon drums of grease of someone as well and didn't really know what to do with them because i didnt fancy spooning it into a grease gun like dad suggestedNice job. For the others i think I’d be inclined to give the outside - and inside if you can- a good coating of thick grease which might stave off rusting a bit and help inserting in the first place.
Willie adie
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
This is my trailer for rolling out wire usually, then used an old base for a sheep feed cradle , to make a frame, and obtained some old plastic floor off cuts to make a base
- Location
- The North
Engine support,
some off cuts of wood old threaded bar (so you can adjust engine up and down) and old s hook I found, and spare cleat from a building
some off cuts of wood old threaded bar (so you can adjust engine up and down) and old s hook I found, and spare cleat from a building
Scholsey
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Few years ago old west trailer we had stripped the thread on the axle for the castle nut and needed replacing, was cheaper to buy a whole new axle from wholesaler than buger about, queue finally finding a use for half a axle!